Anyone know this book?

[ReM]

U-Boat Operations of the Second World War, by Kenneth Wynn,

I can buy this book which consists of 2 volumes for € 50.00

Is this worth buying or should I take a crashdive instead.....?

[wireman]

Good set. You can get it cheaper though. Just saw it the other day for 29.00 u.s. dollars.

[ReM]

Originally Posted by wireman

Good set. You can get it cheaper though. Just saw it the other day for 29.00 u.s. dollars.

Ok, but is this the price for both volumes.....or just one....

$29 is about half the price I found...

[wireman]

http://www.scholarsbookshelf.com/ite...50&itemid=5100

[Chock]

It's good and certainly worth having if you can get it at a good price, but much of the information in it is available for free here:

www.uboat.net/


Chock

[ReM]

Originally Posted by Chock

It's good and certainly worth having if you can get it at a good price, but much of the information in it is available for free here:

www.uboat.net/


Chock

Been there many times.....I thought the information in the set would be a little more detailed....

for about the same amount I can buy Clay Blairs 2 volumes of Hitler's U-boat War....

This would be the better choice then....

[ReM]

Originally Posted by wireman

http://www.scholarsbookshelf.com/ite...50&itemid=5100

Quite a saving.....

I'll see what the shipping costs will be...
Thanks for your advice wireman!

Rem,

I've collected over 150 books on The Battle of the Atlantic, Kriegsmarine and u-boat warfare. I mostly buy Hardcover First Editions if possible although some of my earlier purchases were paperback.

U-Boat Operations of the Second World War was released in Hardcover and Paperback. It's a two volume set which lists u-boats in numerical order. I've never bought it because I've considered this set to be too dry for entertaining reading. I'd rate this right up there with Jurgen Rohwer's Axis Subamarine Successes of WWII which I bought and quickly sold. A great book for research but not for bed-time reading.

As mentioned above, Clay Blair's Hitlers U-boat War: The Hunters and Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunted are probably some of the best historical accounts of the Battle of the Atlantic, etc. The best account of May 1944 - May 1945 is Tarrant's The Last Year of the Kriegsmarine. These three books are still a little bit on the dry side but are at least written in a naritive form.

A few recommendations:

Herbert Werner's Iron Coffins

Micahel Gannon's Operation Drumbeat

Daniel Gallery's Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea or U-505 (an early paperback edition)

Peter Cremer's U-boat Commander

Karl Donitz Memoirs

Note: my wife is selling my paperback copies of Blair's Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunters and Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunted on eBay. They're each $13 plus S & H.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by ReM

U-Boat Operations of the Second World War, by Kenneth Wynn,

I can buy this book which consists of 2 volumes for € 50.00

Is this worth buying or should I take a crashdive instead.....?

Frightfully expensive. I bought the set here in Australia from Angus & Robertson, not on sale, for A$29.00.

I guess that means it should be possible to see them for around €20.

[ReM]

Thanks for all the recommendations guys....

As usual the help over here is great!

It gives me that warm community feeling

The first book that will arrive on my doorstep is War Patrol, The Hidden Photographic Diary of U564 .

I have wanted to read this book and enjoy the photographs for a long time...

For the rest I'm pretty much undecided.

I would love to get my hands on U boats in camera 1939-1945, (I',m a sucker for eye candy) but the only available copy ships at a whopping 211 euro's (LoL)

Too bad books in English are hard to come by and very expensive over here in the Netherlands....

I have tried to grow a Euro tree here in my garden, but is has still not grown any bills...

@von zelda, you might wanne pm me about S&H for your paperback copies, maybe we can work out a deal! It's funny to see that the wife is selling your stuff....

Originally Posted by ReM

von zelda, you might wanne pm me about S&H for your paperback copies, maybe we can work out a deal! It's funny to see that the wife is selling your stuff....

I'm sorry Rem, but my wife does not ship international (outside USA). My wife is good with the eBay details, I'm not. She sells books and clothing of all types, handles all the work. I help out by shooting the pictures.

[ReM]

Originally Posted by von Zelda

I'm sorry Rem, but my wife does not ship international (outside USA). My wife is good with the eBay details, I'm not. She sells books and clothing of all types, handles all the work. I help out by shooting the pictures.

No problem!

Thanks forthe reply.